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Mehrkens flies to new heights |
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Written by April Scheinoha
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 11:37 |
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Lincoln High School junior Tracy Mehrkens created this colored pencil drawing for the 2010 Minnesota Aviation Art Contest. She won second place in the Ages 14-17 division of the contest. (From the Minnesota Department of Transportation Web site)  Tracy Mehrkens is flying to new heights after completing a colored pencil drawing. She received second place in the Ages 14-17 category of the 2010 Minnesota Aviation Art Contest.
“I was very surprised,”?said Mehrkens with a laugh. “I didn’t really expect to win.”
The high school junior created the drawing last quarter in her Visual Arts class, which is a part of the Magnet Arts program at Lincoln High School in Thief River Falls. “It’s a colored pencil drawing of a little boy sitting in a toy plane, kind of like those toy cars,” said Mehrkens. The boy is watching a jet pass by.
“The theme was ‘My Dream to Fly,’ and I thought that captured the theme really well,” she said. |
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Pioneers advance to nationals |
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Written by Mike Lundgren
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 11:33 |
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Northland Community and Technical College women’s basketball team celebrated it’s 55-52 Saturday afternoon win over Rainy River in the National Junior College Athletic Association Region 13B playoff game – a victory that sends the Pioneers to the 2010 NCJAA Division III national tournament March 11-13 in Rochester. Members of the team include, front from left, Chelsea Gray, Beth Tvedt; kneeling, Tiffany McMillan, Danelle Schommer, Bridget Lunde, Meagan Abrahamson; back row, head coach Guy Finstrom, Cassie Gunderson, Brittany Wiseth, Whitney Langen, Brittany Kirkeide and assistant coach Mandy Crittenden. Northland relied on a front line trio of Whitney Langen, Brittany Wiseth and Cassie Gunderson to reach the National Junior College Athletic Association Region 13B playoff game. Saturday, a different threesome took the Pioneers a step farther – to the NJCAA Division III national tournament.
Together, Langen, Wiseth and Gunderson had just five field goals in the national-qualifier against Rainy River. But Bridget Lunde came up with a monster 29-point afternoon, while Tiffany McMillan and Danelle Schommer made key plays in the final minute as the Pioneers edged their Minnesota College Athletic Conference Northern Division rival 55-52.
The win sends 19-12 Northland to the national tournament for the second time in four years and third time overall. |
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Title goes to Warroad |
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Written by TRF Times
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Friday, 05 March 2010 09:23 |
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Warroad goalie Andy Foster and forward Brock Nelson kept an eye on the puck as Thief River Falls applied pressure around the net during the second period of Thursday’s Section 8A boys high school hockey tournament championship game at East Grand Forks. Foster came up with a 25-save shutout in a 2-0 Warroad win. Goals by Brett Hebel and Brock Nelson, along with a 25-save shutout goaltending performance by Andy Foster, carried Warroad to a 2-0 Section 8A boys high school hockey tournament championship game win over Thief River Falls Thursday in front of a large East Grand Forks Civic Center crowd.
Warroad will take a 24-4 record into the 2010 Class A state tournament quarterfinals Wednesday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Thief River Falls’ season ended at 19-8-1.
It was the third meeting of the year between the two long-time rivals, who split a pair of 2-1 regular season games. |
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RLF principal wins leadership award |
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Written by TRF Times
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Friday, 05 March 2010 09:29 |
 The Minnesota Elementary School Principals’ Association has recognized Jan Anderson, principal of J.A. Hughes Elementary School in Red Lake Falls, with the 2010 MESPA Division Leadership Achievement Award.
“Well, it was a complete surprise, and it feels really good to be selected by my peers,” Anderson said.
Anderson has served as the principal of J.A. Hughes Elementary School since the 2002-03 school year. Prior to serving as principal, she was a sixth grade teacher in the Red Lake Falls School District.
Principals are responsible for a school’s instructional, culture and resource leadership. The award honors principals whose exemplary leadership and sustained efforts have made noteworthy contributions to the operation of effective school learning programs – improving education, their communities, and their profession.
“Great principals lead great schools. These men and women are leaders in our profession and truly represent the very best in Minnesota public schools. As leaders, we focus on the potential and possibilities to ignite hope within our schools,” said P. Fred Storti, MESPA executive director. |
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Spellers from area schools advance to State Bee |
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Written by TRF Times
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Friday, 05 March 2010 09:20 |
The Region 1 & 2 Spelling Bee was held Friday, Feb. 26 at Northland Community and Technical College in Thief River Falls.
The top four spellers were seventh grader Emily Tykward, Grygla School District; seventh grader Aaron Sparby, Thief River Falls School District; seventh grader Andrew Hagen, Warroad School District; and seventh grader Austin Tadman, Win-E-Mac School District. They now advance to the Multi-Regional ~ State Spelling Bee on Tuesday, March 9 in Fergus Falls. The winner of this bee advances to the 83nd Annual National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., on June 2-4.
They were among 43 students in fifth through eighth grades from 33 schools in northwestern Minnesota who were eligible to participate in the Regional Spelling Bee hosted by Northwest Service Cooperative. All spellers participated in a written round in the morning with the top 24 spellers continuing in the afternoon with an oral round.
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